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Marsa Matrouh district to be developed for tourism
A northern Egyptian town close to the seaside resort of Alexandria is earmarked for a large development aimed at increasing tourism. The $4 million Marsa Matrouh development includes 29 projects to accommodate up to 30 million tourists, with hotels and recreation facilities such as safaris and tours of cultural landmarks, a university and a new... »
Alexandria: 2010 Capital of Arab Tourism
Image via Wikipedia Egyptian Tourism Minister, Zoheir Garranah, and Major General Adel Labib, Governor of Alexandria, declared the initiation of the ceremonial festivals for the selection of Alexandria as the Capital of Arab Tourism for the year 2010 during the press conference that was held on March 17th at that city. Twelve other Arab cities... »
Egypt’s Mediterranean coast protected in reserve
Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya. The 383-sq km (150-square-mile) reserve, mostly in the water in the Gulf of el-Salloum, is Egypt’s 28th nature protectorate, but its first on the Mediterranean. The protectorate contains more than 160 migratory and local bird species, about... »
Rare storm hits Egypt
Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday. In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media... »
Hotels in Alexandria and Hurghada to feature non-smoking areas
British American Tobacco, Egypt (BAT), together with the Egyptian Hotel Association (EHA) in Alexandria and Hurghada, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with immediate effect, aimed at providing hotel guests in both cities with designated non-smoking and smoking areas. The initiative has been developed under the framework of BAT’s global “Respecting Choices” program, which... »
Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Bastet unearthed in Alexandria
Egyptian archaeologists under the direction of Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of Antiquities of Lower Egypt, have discovered the remains of a temple from the Ptolemaic era in the area of Kom al-Dikka, Alexandria. The 60 meters tall and 15 meters wide building dates from the reign of Queen Berenike, from where the modern name... »
Interesting idea to recreate what the Great Library of Alexandria was like
Image via Wikipedia While I (John Gaudet) was there (the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina) I made the argument… that they should consider an idea put forward by Hassan Ragab, an old friend of mine who passed away in 2004. He suggested that hundreds of scrolls could be reproduced to stock a small section of the New... »
Granite pylon lifted out of the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria
Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday lifted an ancient granite temple pylon out of the waters of the Mediterranean, where it had lain for centuries as part of the palace complex of Cleopatra, now lay strewn on the seabed in the harbor of Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt. The pylon, which once stood at the... »
The Tomb of Cleopatra: The search continues
Dr Kathleen Martinez, a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been excavating a site near Alexandria in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra. After being given permission to conduct a dig at the site for 2 months, Dr Martinez’s team have discovered two chambers which has won them the right to continue... »
The Library of Alexandria: “House of Muses”
Image via Wikipedia It was remarkable and extraordinary that this soldier (Alexander the Great) built one of the greatest academic institutions in history. It was called the House of Muses (from which we derive the word “museum”) and contained all the elements of a modern residential university. It comprised four schools — mathematics, letters, astronomy... »
